Mudborne from ellraiser / TNgineers is a wonderfully charming laid-back casual nature management sim about discovering & breeding frogs. Officially out now with Native Linux support and it's Steam Deck Verified.
The new cross-platform and open source Nexus Mods App is coming along with their team now formally announcing the Stardew Valley Preview. With support for Linux / Steam Deck baked right in.
If you like your games that try to break the mold, you should definitely check out the recently released Dawnfolk from Darenn Keller.
Paradox have today launched the new Season 09 Expansion Pass, which initially launches with the Stargazer Species Portrait. There's stuff that's actually interesting to come though, but you have to wait until May 5th.
The Dark Mod is a seriously impressive project giving us a completely free and open source standalone Thief-like stealth game, and The Dark Mod 2.13 release is another great one.
From Rain Games who made Teslagrad, Girl Genius: Adventures In Castle Heterodyne and World to the West their next game is Knuckle Jet.
Minecraft Live has been and gone again and this time there was some pretty big news. Vibrant Visuals was announced as a future major upgrade, which will bring some fancier looking graphics to Minecraft.
With filming that's been going on and off for three years, Noclip are doing a 4-part documentary series on Dwarf Fortress. The first episode is now live.
From Ogre Pixel who made Lonesome Village and A Tiny Sticker Tale, their next game is an action roguelike where you're defending a walking castle. Castlebound seems like it could be a lot of fun.
Chaosmonger Studio developer of ENCODYA, Speedollama, Three Minutes To Eight and Clunky Hero have announced their working on an official video game for the metal band Voivod.
Ruffy and the Riverside could be one of the best platformers of 2025, and it's going to release with Native Linux support on June 26th.
I've already covered what I think are the must-have Steam Deck deals in the Steam Spring Sale 2025, but what if you're someone who specifically shops for games that have a Native Linux version available? Here's some recommendations for you.
2D BOY / Tomorrow Corporation have announced that following it being an exclusive to the Epic Games Store and their own store on PC, that World of Goo 2 is coming to Steam.
War Thunder has been updated with the first major expansion of 2025. Titled Hornet’s Sting it adds in Ray Tracing support for AMD and Intel GPUs. There's but coming though.
The team at Nexus Mods have released a new version of their open source and cross-platform Nexus Mods app, with Stardew Valley modding now considered close to being ready for everyone.
So far the oldest game binary I have launched has been the original Linux port of Doom. This brought me back to 1994, both the year I was born and the year that the Linux kernel reached its milestone 1.0 release. Browsing an old SunSITE archive I came across the jetpack-linux.tar.z tarball, which contained an unusual X11 game built and packaged in June 1993.
Paradox have announced Crusader Kings III: Chapter IV, the next expansion pass for their popular strategy game. One DLC is already available, with the next major expansion due out April 28th.
12 years after the successful Kickstarter, the supernatural horror adventure ASYLUM from Senscape has finally seen a release. Although the Native Linux version has unfortunately been delayed.
Back in 2014 the mech combat game Dark Horizons: Mechanized Corps arrived on Steam in Early Access but it was eventually abandoned. Now, a few of the original team got back together to bring it back as Mechanized Corps: Rebirth.
It looks very much like Advance Wars. LAVABIRD and First Break Labs have announced that Warside is set for launch now on April 14th.
